What Are Russian Oblasts?

In the Russian Empire, oblasts were a third-level administrative division, organized in 1849 and few in number, dividing the larger guberniyas (governorates) within the first-level krais

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The term krai or kray is derived from the Russian word for an edge and can be translated into English as "frontier" or "territory". The largest krai by geographic size is Krasnoyarsk Krai at 2,339,700 square kilometers (903,400 sq mi) and the smallest is Stavropol Krai at 66,500 square kilometers (25,700 sq mi).
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What does oblast mean in Russia?

: a political subdivision of Imperial Russia or a republic of the U.S.S.R. or of the Russian Federation.

What makes up the Russian Federation?

According to the Russian Constitution, the Russian Federation consists of republics, krais, oblasts, cities of federal importance, an autonomous oblast and autonomous okrugs, all of which are equal subjects of the Russian Federation. ... Every federal subject has its own head, a parliament, and a constitutional court.

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